Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology journal rankings 2003
50 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology has 50 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR rose 0.10 on 2002 to 0.91, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.61. The top three are Second language Research, Contemporary Educational Psychology, and British Journal of Educational Psychology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Psychology (7)
50 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2003. | Compare |
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1Second language ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.98Q1 | 2.46 2.19 up from 2002 | 95 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
2Contemporary Educational PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.24Q1 | 1.68 0.72 down from 2002 | 98 | 4% | $4,720 | ||
3British Journal of Educational PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.22Q1 | 1.70 0.10 up from 2002 | 106 | 8% | $3,760 | ||
4Evolution and Human BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 3.19Q1 | 2.74 0.28 down from 2002 | 115 | 0% | $4,330 | ||
5Psychological MethodsAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.00Q1 | 2.53 1.23 up from 2002 | 173 | 4% | — | ||
6Organizational Behavior and Human Decision ProcessesElsevier BV · United States | 2.82Q1 | 2.14 1.30 down from 2002 | 149 | 2% | $3,530 | ||
7The Journal of Experimental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.20Q1 | 2.00 0.65 up from 2002 | 62 | 0% | — | ||
8Multivariate Behavioral ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.94Q1 | 1.57 0.57 up from 2002 | 67 | 5% | — | ||
9Cognitive Therapy and ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.86Q1 | 1.64 0.51 down from 2002 | 157 | 7% | $4,090 | ||
10PhonologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 1.83 0.65 up from 2002 | 44 | 0% | $3,550 | ||
11Cognitive LinguisticsOADe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 1.76Q1 | 1.28 0.17 down from 2002 | 57 | 0% | $0 listed | ||
12IntelligenceElsevier BV · United States | 1.75Q1 | 2.49 0.37 up from 2002 | 104 | 2% | $3,530 | ||
13EmotionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.61Q1 | 2.02 0.85 up from 2002 | 116 | 7% | — | ||
14Journal of PhoneticsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.58Q2 | 1.67 0.44 up from 2002 | 67 | 9% | $3,210 | ||
15SLEEPOxford University Press · United States | 1.58Q2 | 3.06 0.61 up from 2002 | 261 | 15% | $4,388 | ||
16Learning and Individual DifferencesElsevier BV · United States | 1.53Q2 | 1.07 0.06 down from 2002 | 31 | 0% | $3,640 | ||
17Journal of Sleep ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.41Q2 | 2.30 0.79 down from 2002 | 138 | 17% | $4,340 | ||
18Educational PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.35Q2 | 0.80 0.10 up from 2002 | 126 | 5% | — | ||
19Human NatureSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.28Q2 | 1.44 0.10 up from 2002 | 58 | 11% | $2,190 | ||
20The Journal of Creative BehaviorWiley · United States | 1.25Q2 | 1.06no change | 49 | 5% | $2,900 | ||
21PhoneticaKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.19Q2 | 1.00 0.14 down from 2002 | 57 | 33% | $2,712 | ||
22Gifted Child QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.06Q2 | 0.72 0.22 down from 2002 | 68 | 0% | $1,400 | ||
23Sleep Medicine ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 1.72 0.70 up from 2002 | 126 | 0% | $5,950 | ||
24Language and SpeechSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 0.91 0.30 down from 2002 | 54 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
25Philosophia MathematicaOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 0.60 0.38 up from 2002 | 85 | 3% | $4,533 | ||
26Creativity Research JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.86Q3 | 0.85 0.34 up from 2002 | 82 | 6% | — | ||
27Metaphor and SymbolRoutledge · United States | 0.82Q3 | 0.85 0.25 down from 2002 | 59 | 5% | — | ||
28Language and Literature International Journal of StylisticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 0.43 0.21 up from 2002 | 66 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
29Chronobiology InternationalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.61Q3 | 1.78 0.22 up from 2002 | 203 | 6% | — | ||
30Sleep MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.59Q3 | 1.01 0.67 down from 2002 | 220 | 2% | $4,350 | ||
31Roeper ReviewRoutledge · United States | 0.55Q3 | 0.35 0.11 down from 2002 | 144 | 0% | — | ||
32High Ability StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.48Q3 | 0.30 0.05 down from 2002 | 41 | 5% | — | ||
| 0.45Q3 | 0.20 0.16 up from 2002 | 32 | — | — | |||
34Journal of the International Phonetic AssociationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.42Q3 | 0.34 0.25 up from 2002 | 56 | 22% | $3,550 | ||
35Gifted and Talented InternationalTaylor & Francis | 0.38Q3 | 0.19 0.06 down from 2002 | 67 | 0% | — | ||
36SemioticaOADe Gruyter · Germany | 0.36Q3 | 0.26 0.15 up from 2002 | 273 | 4% | $0 listed | ||
37Psychology Evolution & GenderTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.35Q3 | 0.21 0.05 up from 2002 | 61 | — | — | ||
38Biological Rhythm ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.26Q3 | 0.50 0.05 down from 2002 | 121 | 4% | — | ||
39TheoriaWiley · Sweden | 0.25Q4 | 0.18 0.09 up from 2002 | 54 | 0% | $3,240 | ||
40AxiomathesSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 0.22Q4 | 0.22 0.12 up from 2002 | 40 | 0% | $2,990 | ||
41Somnologie - Schlafforschung und SchlafmedizinSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.20Q4 | 0.58 0.18 up from 2002 | 75 | 9% | $3,390 | ||
42The International Journal of Creativity and Problem SolvingPublisher not listed | 0.17Q4 | 0.03 0.03 down from 2002 | 44 | 0% | — | ||
43Journal of Literary SemanticsDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 0.17Q4 | 0.22 0.13 up from 2002 | 59 | 0% | $2,712 | ||
44Research in Dance EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.17Q4 | 0.12no change | 58 | 0% | — | ||
45journal for the education of the giftedSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.16Q4 | 0.08 0.23 down from 2002 | 123 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
46ENGLISH LINGUISTICSOAJapan | 0.14Q4 | 0.13 0.02 down from 2002 | 80 | 96% | — | ||
47Journal of Dance Medicine & ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.11Q4 | 0.19 0.11 up from 2002 | 68 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
48Gifted Education InternationalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.10Q4 | 0.06 0.01 down from 2002 | 82 | 3% | $3,400 | ||
49Journal of Dance EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.06Q4 | 0.14 0.01 down from 2002 | 43 | 0% | — | ||
50Onsei kenkyū/Onsei kenkyuOAJapan | 0.04Q4 | 0.04 0.19 down from 2002 | 31 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Psychology, with Experimental and Cognitive Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology325
- Social Psychology119
- Developmental and Educational Psychology88
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology50
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology5
- Applied Psychology2
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
17 additional Experimental and Cognitive Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 50
- Window papers (baseline)
- 18,824 +27.8% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.910 +6.5% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 46 | 46 | 49 | 50 | 52 | 55 | 57 | 58 | 62 | 66 | 69 | 71 | 79 | 81 | 85 | 89 | 92 | 97 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 98 | 102 | 105 | 104 | 103 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 14,729 | 15,884 | 17,225 | 18,824 | 19,987 | 21,367 | 23,176 | 25,747 | 28,755 | 31,869 | 34,468 | 37,293 | 39,972 | 42,003 | 43,859 | 45,321 | 48,043 | 49,491 | 50,738 | 51,227 | 53,198 | 56,392 | 60,486 | 63,684 | 65,590 | 68,101 | |
| Median OJR | 0.854 | 0.77 | 0.81 | 0.910 | 0.78 | 0.862 | 0.98 | 0.92 | 0.903 | 0.9999 | 1.04 | 1.20 | 0.97 | 0.93 | 1.33 | 1.09 | 0.99 | 1.02 | 1.01 | 0.860 | 0.94 | 0.902 | 0.906 | 0.82 | 0.848 | 0.856 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.